Council vote on gay marriage will have unintended consequences
Re: “D.C. Council gives final approval to legalize gay marriage,” Dec. 16
Silly me. What I once thought was a sign of my native city’s moral decline has now become a “civil rights issue.”
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What I believed to be an attempt by the city council to redefine marriage has suddenly become “marriage equality.” Just think. With the stroke of a pen, the council has swept away all of the negative spiritual, physical and emotional consequences of homosexual behavior.
Now two men of the same gender can serve openly in the D.C. National Guard as a married couple. Adoption agencies will have to place minor children with cohabitating homosexuals. Churches must now refrain from describing legally sanctioned homosexuality as a sin.
It’s all so wonderful! I can hardly wait to show my appreciation to the mayor and the council at the next election.
Eric DeVant Sims
Washington
Drug busts just a part of a never-ending drug war cycle
Re: “D.C. undercover sting nets $1M in drugs, scores of guns,” Dec. 16
Every day, police departments come out with huge-headline drug busts, glorifying their so-called success and misguiding citizens into feeling a false sense of security. In reality, our country has a serious problem that can’t be solved by undercover operations.
Increases in organized crime, corrupt law enforcement, economic downfall, more deaths, overflowing prisons and more dangerous substances. Sound familiar? It doesn’t take much to see the similarities between the consequences of alcohol prohibition and current drug prohibition.
If we really want to control where drugs are, who they’re going to, how much they cost, how and when people are getting them, prohibition is the most hands-off, careless and ineffective way of doing so.
It’s time we legalize and regulate drugs so that law enforcement can focus on more serious crimes, and so that people with drug abuse problems can find the help they need from a doctor, not a cellmate.
Irina Alexander
President, University of Maryland Students for Sensible Drug Policy
Washington
